Miles Winter Roberts: Guitar and Vocals.
Tom Pilling: Piano and Keys.
Roberto Ares: Drums and Percussion.
Matt Radford: Double Bass.
Gordon Mills: Drums
All songs written by MWR.
Influences
Carole King, Jose Feliciano, JJ Cale, Neil Diamond, Nat King Cole, Elton John (Yellow Brick Road era), Trini Lopez!, Sinatra (Frank and Nancy), Nancy and Lee!, Bacharach, Rodrigo, Rodriguez!, Tim Hardin, Peter Sarstedt, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Joni Mitchel (Blue), Keziah Jones, Tony Joe White, Eagles, Beatles and Stones, The Band, Bob Dylan, Chris Smither, Bonnie Raitt, Dr John, Harry Nielsen, Paul Simon.
Sounds Like
Full Name: Miles Winter Roberts - Singer/Songwriter
Origin: UK. However, was raised in Ibiza and spent years in Hamburg from where he discovered Eastern Europe and the Rivieras. An International through and through.
Previous bands: Miles From Nowhere, Whiskey Smile, The Wandering Hands. (Who!?) Got very involved in Pinky Poos Are your parents still together? in London. THE innovative open mic/acoustic performance show for about 7 years. Every Tuesday. (One night a week. Thats a whole year of life. Eek!) Performed with fantastic players there: Kevin Armstrong, Blair McKeachan, JC001, Keziah Jones, and more
Released 'Shoo-Lallelujah . . .' in 2000 on his own label, Chocolate Box. It featured Spanish guitarist Stephen Dunphy and was instrumental in getting his songs widely spread around. Recorded live, in Mono, on Mini Disk in a Basement Bar in Bayswater, this album went all around the world to surprising response!
Live Performances:
Ronnie Scotts, Café de Paris, Café Royal: London
Cutting Room, Back Fence, The Under Score: NYC
Sopot Festival: Poland (1st place), Çesme Festival: Turkey (1st place)
Grosse Freiheit, Logo, Musikhalle, Kaiserkeller: Hamburg
The Casino of Ibiza with Nina van Pallant of Nina and Frederik.
and a thousand or so bar gigs - too many to mention!
Bizarrest Situation? (Amongst many...;-):
Meeting heroes Johnny Cash and José Feliciano on the same day. . . in Poland!
Hi, Just to let you know there's a new Blog on the David Mensah Official My Space Page where you can find out about David's latest Newsletter and a big competition we're organizing next month. There'll be exciting prizes to be won so don't miss out.
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what..s up miles? schade das wir uns nur ganz kurz getroffen haben als du in hamburg warst..gil hat mir erzählt das ihr beide ab gerockt habt ne nacht..lol
How's it going? There is a free track available for you at the moment on our myspace page. Just click the FREE DOWNLOAD box at the top of the page and enter a valid email to download the tune. How cool is that!
Have a great week and thank you very much for being electronically connected to us as friends and fans.
my latest 12" vinyl is out now. Digital release to be expected in september. To get a promo please send me a short message here on myspace.
ARTIST: NICO GRUBERT
A SIDE: RISING
AA SIDE: DOM PERIGNON // SNOW WHITE
LABEL: O.TON RECORDS (France)
CAT NO: OTN01
Another wicked sublabel from toonzshop records this time in a perfect minimal techno way! Welcome to O.TON for is fist ep we ask to Nico Grubert from switzerland to give us his vision of sound in 3 tracks.
A side is a furious one full of trippy wave perfect for you peaktime set!
On the AA side you'll find the track which is extact the name of this ep: «Dom Perignon ep» - classic smart and deep tech house.
The second one is more catchy and fluffy dancefloor as well as a little morning on the beach! This one gonna be a summer bomb.
hallo miles! hope your well mate. havent seen you at a gig in a dogs age. keep in touch my friend, be good to get together for a beer or nine sometime soon! SKOL! Jim
Hiya, Hope you are well. I wanted to let you know that, my single 'Lost Innocence' is out now. You can get it from itunes, and on cd and limited edition vinyl
We hope to chart this week and every single sale counts, it would be great if you would buy the single, that would be fantastic, and even better in all 3 formats! Your support is much appreciated!!!
Hey we just added 4 songs... RAIN...CIGGS AND ALC...LEAVING (harder).... AND U MAKE ME SICK...(harder) We would love to hear your feedback on these. Thanks PENGEA